July 2005 Awards*

Winston Atkins of Perkins Library has received an award from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for a project entitled "Cooperative Preservation of Audio-Visual Materials: A Proposed Planning Project." Total funding will be $25,000 over 12 months.

James T. Beale of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Computational Methods for Singular and Nearly Singular Integrals with Applications to Fluid Dynamics (Supplement)." Total funding will be $28,583 over 24 months.

Adrian Bejan of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from the University of Illinois for a project entitled "MURI: Micro-Vascular Autonomic Composites." Total funding will be $877,792 over 60 months.

Elizabeth Brannon of Cognitive Neuroscience has received an award from Johns Hopkins University for a project entitled "Parsing the Variables of Illumination and Cage Height." Total funding will be $6,000 over 9 months.

April Brown of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the University of Wisconsin for a project entitled "MURI - Highly Lattice Mismatched Materials." Total funding will be $156,224 over 7 months.

Nenad Bursac of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the American Heart Association for a project entitled "Cardiomyoplasty in Vitro: Role of Interaction between Donor and Host Cells in Electrical Propogation." Total funding will be $40,000 over 24 months.

Merlise A. Clyde of ISDS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Collaborative Research: Adaptive Experimental Design for Astronomical Exploration." Total funding will be $265,832 over 36 months.

Leslie M. Collins of Electrical Engineering has received an award from the Strategic Environmental Research & Development Program for a project entitled "Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing for UXO Discrimination for Next-Generation Sensor Data." Total funding will be $1,470,000 over 36 months.

Cathy N. Davidson of the Franklin Institute has received an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project entitled "The Sawyer Seminar Proposal." Total funding will be $240,000 over 24 months.

Anda Degeratu of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "The Geometry of Calabi-Yau Manifolds." Total funding will be $92,443 over 36 months.

Earl H. Dowell of Mechanical Engineering has received an award from Clear Science Corporation for a project entitled "Computational Models for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Systems." Total funding will be $245,480 over 24 months.

Alan Gelfand of ISDS has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data." Total funding will be $67,966 over 36 months.

Richard M. Hain of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Hodge Theory, Galois Theory and the Topology of Moduli Spaces (Supplement)." Total funding will be $14,401 over 24 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Nicholas School has received an award from Science Applications International Corporation for a project entitled "Advancing functionality and interoperability between the LMRIS and OBIS- SEAMAP marine information systems." Total funding will be $176,635 over 11 months.

Patrick N. Halpin of the Nicholas School has received an award from Environmental Defense for a project entitled "A Proposal for Developing a Multi-Criteria Conservation Plan for North-Eastern Coastal North Carolina." Total funding will be $25,420 over 5 months.

Judith A. Horowitz of the School of Law has received an award from the Soros Foundation for a project entitled "Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law." Total funding will be $18,060 over 3 months.

Judith A. Horowitz of the School of Law has received an award from the Soros Foundation for a project entitled "Duke-Geneva Institute 2005." Total funding will be $16,560 over 3 months.

Stephen Jaffe of Music has received an award from the Argosy Foundation for a project entitled "CD Recording by Bridge Records." Total funding will be $10,000 over 12 months.

Ahmed W. Khwaja of the Fuqua School of Business has received an award from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill for a project entitled "Conference on Structural Models in Labor, Aging and Health." Total funding will be $16,200 over 18 months.

Daniel P. Kiehart of DCMB has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Myosins VIIA, VIIB & XV in Fly Hearing and Morphogenesis." Total funding will be $1,744,707 over 59 months.

William Kirby-Smith of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a project entitled "The Arcadia Cruise: Assessing long-term changes in tropical reef-coral distribution along the Atlantic Continental Margin, southeastern United States." Total funding will be $99,461 over 12 months.

Nan Li of Public Policy Studies has received an award from the University of California - Berkeley for a project entitled "Improving and Extending the Lee-Carter Method for Forecasting Mortality." Total funding will be $40,108 over 1 month.

Warren H. Meck of Psychological and Brain Sciences has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "REU Site: Research Program in Mechanisms of Behavior (Supplement)." Total funding will be $52,500 over 34 months.

Thomas C. Mehen of Physics has received an award from the Department of Energy for a project entitled "Heavy Quarks, QCD, and Effective Field Theory." Total funding will be $225,000 over 36 months.

S. Philip Morgan of Sociology has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Effects of Employment on Fertility After the First Birth." Total funding will be $86,044 over 24 months.

Emerson Niou of Political Science has received an award from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Chinese Cultural Foundation for a project entitled "Nuclear Deterrence Over China." Total funding will be $25,000 over 24 months.

Mohamed A. Noor of DCMB has received an award from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled "Molecular Basis of Reproductive Isolation in Drosophila." Total funding will be $149,772 over 36 months.

Orrin H. Pilkey, Jr. of Earth & Ocean Sciences has received an award from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Inc. for a project entitled "Continuing Support for Duke PSDS." Total funding will be $30,000 over 12 months.

Martha Putallaz of the Talent Identification Program has received an award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for a project entitled "Proposal to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to Fund Outreach Activities." Total funding will be $90,000 over 11 months.

Andrew J. Read of the Marine Lab has received an award from the National Marine Fisheries Service for a project entitled "Monitoring bycatch in the North Carolina stop net fishery." Total funding will be $44,216 over 11 months.

Kenneth H. Reckhow of the Nicholas School has received an award from the Water Resources Research Institute for a project entitled "Evaluating Eutrophication-Related Water Quality Parameters in North Carolina Lakes and Reservoirs." Total funding will be $42,250 over 16 months.

John Reif of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "EMT: A DNA-Based Autonomous Programmable Molecular Transport Network." Total funding will be $400,000 over 36 months.

Curtis J. Richardson of the Nicholas School has received an award from the County of Durham for a project entitled "Sandy Creek/Duke Forest Restoration Project." Total funding will be $160,000 over 12 months.

William H. Schlesinger of the Nicholas School has received an award from the NC Department of Administration for a project entitled "Energy Interns." Total funding will be $3,000 over 12 months.

Barbara R. Shaw of Chemistry has received an award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for a project entitled "The Pharmacodynamics of Genes and Oligonucleotides." Total funding will be $59,502 over 11 months.

P. J. Eric Stallard of Demographic Studies has received an award from the Department of Veterans Affairs for a project entitled "Aging Veterans Health Policy Model." Total funding will be $92,781 over 9 months.

Mark A. Stern of Mathematics has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Positive Mass, Singularities, and Supersymmetry." Total funding will be $108,000 over 36 months.

Carlo Tomasi of Computer Science has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Visual Learning in Context." Total funding will be $358,490 over 36 months.

Adam P. Wax of Biomedical Engineering has received an award from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "Low Coherence Light Scattering for Biophotonics (supplement)." Total funding will be $40,750 over 42 months.

*School of Medicine awards are listed separately:

http://meddeandirect.mc.duke.edu/awards.asp

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Last updated August 2, 2005, by Ken Macdonald